I like the Reader feature, very useful. But the color of the progress bar should be light gray.
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Apple Announces Release of Safari 5 with Extensions - But Where Is It?
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Safari went up to 1.85 gb from just surfing like 4 sites for a coupe minutes. Is it normal to expect safari to use more than .5GB extra compared to firefox?
Gosh, I've missed the blue loading bar big time.
Too bad they didn't include the unified address/search bar à la Chrome.
Too bad they didn't include the unified address/search bar à la Chrome.
Yahoo issues
I am not able to load yahoo.com or thefourthperiod.com since updating anyone else experience these issues. It has been several hours and still these two sites don't work. Every other site seems snappy and responsive
I am not able to load yahoo.com or thefourthperiod.com since updating anyone else experience these issues. It has been several hours and still these two sites don't work. Every other site seems snappy and responsive
I love that the progress bar is back, it's much more useful. The Reader feature is fab too.
It's not difficult to change the colour yourself, I just knocked up a fetching purple version in about 5 minutes. So if you'd really like a graphite loading bar, (or any other colour you like) here's how you can do it:
1) Right-Click the Safari.app and choose 'show package contents'.
2) Navigate to Contents/Resources. In here you'll see lots of graphics, mostly .png files.
3) Select the following 8 files:
URLFieldCapLeftInactiveProgress.png
URLFieldCapLeftProgress.png
URLFieldCapLeftRoundedInactiveProgress.png
URLFieldCapLeftRoundedProgress.png
URLFieldCapRightInactiveProgress.png
URLFieldCapRightProgress.png
URLFieldMiddleInactiveProgress.png
URLFieldMiddleProgress.png
and open then up in a graphics editor like Photoshop. I used PS Elements.
4) Adjust the colour of the files to whatever you want. Use a little caution if you still want to be able to read the text in the URL bar above the colour (black might be a bad idea?! lol)! You can just 'remove colour' if you want a grey/graphite look.
5) 'Save as... ' the files as .pngs just like they are already, I recommend in a new folder, I made one called 'Custom URLField images (purple)'. If you save over the originals and change your mind, it would be more hassle to get them back later.
6) Assuming you didn't just save over the originals, all you need to do now is move the new versions into the resources folder after moving the originals elsewhere. I put the original blue ones in a new folder called 'Original URLSField images (Blue)' and put that folder, along with the new (purple) folder in the already existing 'Resources Disabled' folder. Then I moved the ones from the purple folder to the Resources folder.
And that's it. Load up Safari again, and you have a loading bar with a different colour.... e.g.:
It's not difficult to change the colour yourself, I just knocked up a fetching purple version in about 5 minutes. So if you'd really like a graphite loading bar, (or any other colour you like) here's how you can do it:
1) Right-Click the Safari.app and choose 'show package contents'.
2) Navigate to Contents/Resources. In here you'll see lots of graphics, mostly .png files.
3) Select the following 8 files:
URLFieldCapLeftInactiveProgress.png
URLFieldCapLeftProgress.png
URLFieldCapLeftRoundedInactiveProgress.png
URLFieldCapLeftRoundedProgress.png
URLFieldCapRightInactiveProgress.png
URLFieldCapRightProgress.png
URLFieldMiddleInactiveProgress.png
URLFieldMiddleProgress.png
and open then up in a graphics editor like Photoshop. I used PS Elements.
4) Adjust the colour of the files to whatever you want. Use a little caution if you still want to be able to read the text in the URL bar above the colour (black might be a bad idea?! lol)! You can just 'remove colour' if you want a grey/graphite look.
5) 'Save as... ' the files as .pngs just like they are already, I recommend in a new folder, I made one called 'Custom URLField images (purple)'. If you save over the originals and change your mind, it would be more hassle to get them back later.
6) Assuming you didn't just save over the originals, all you need to do now is move the new versions into the resources folder after moving the originals elsewhere. I put the original blue ones in a new folder called 'Original URLSField images (Blue)' and put that folder, along with the new (purple) folder in the already existing 'Resources Disabled' folder. Then I moved the ones from the purple folder to the Resources folder.
And that's it. Load up Safari again, and you have a loading bar with a different colour.... e.g.:
Dang, I'm going to revert back to Safari 4.1
So far for me, Safari 5 is loading pages more slowly than 4, and I'm seeing beach balls which I never saw with Safari 4.
I know I'm probably the only one in the world who thinks this, but I don't like the blue page loading bar. To me it's just a distraction on my screen, because we all pretty much know when a page is either going to load or it's not, and I don't need a progress bar to tell me what's going on.
Maybe I'll quit Safari 5 and reload and see if that helps. I see it's worked for a few others on this thread...
So far for me, Safari 5 is loading pages more slowly than 4, and I'm seeing beach balls which I never saw with Safari 4.
I know I'm probably the only one in the world who thinks this, but I don't like the blue page loading bar. To me it's just a distraction on my screen, because we all pretty much know when a page is either going to load or it's not, and I don't need a progress bar to tell me what's going on.
Maybe I'll quit Safari 5 and reload and see if that helps. I see it's worked for a few others on this thread...
If you do end up sticking with it, follow my instructions above and you can make the png files blank white, and it'd be like the progress bar is not there.
Hey, for some reason I only half-read your post up above! I'll give it a good look now and let you know if I can perform your suggestions.
Also, quitting and then re-starting Safari 5 made a noticeable difference for me in terms of speed and "snappiness." Now Safari has the kind of snappiness that makes me sometimes go back to Chrome, though I REALLY don't like Google's creepiness, despite some great products they provide for free.
Edit: In fact, the pages are loading so fast that the blue loading bar is a lot less of a bother to me. I imagine I'll get used to it, although it sure seems that if I was building a web browser I would want to make as many features of the browser optional and changeable, since it appears to be such a small amount of work to include these options. Why wouldn't Apple just give us a check-box in the Preferences pane saying "Loading Bar" or "4.1 Activity Box."
Oh well, these are small matters, but I think we're all here on this forum because small matters are important to us.
Great update! DL worked flawless, 1PW update the same.
It is indeed. But try to make a screenshot of a reader page
It is indeed. But try to make a screenshot of a reader page
Thats fine, if your job involves just browsing the web... not so fine if you have Virtual machines running, an Eclipse IDE running as well and when Safari eats up 600mb out of my 4Gb of Ram, yes, that is actually a problem.
Things add up when you have to multi task and I've been forced to shut down Safari before due to its growing use of memory. Reopen the same pages again (I use glims plugin) after quitting and you can see that it uses far less memory. Safari has been a bit more hungry for memory than it should be for several releases - you just have to look at the official Mac discussions forums to find posts about it.
Same case here... I also see the pages loading slower than before I updated to Safari 5. I'll give it a try for a couple of days. If it doesn't get better, I'll seek to go back to Safari 4.1 until 5.1 comes out.
Also, the VideoBox and Web Snapper toolbar buttons don't work (attached) any more... anyone else having this particular problem? I already wrote TastyApps to find out what's the problem.
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EDIT: Already received word from TastyApps customer service regarding the VideoBox and Web Snapper issue!!! They have released an update which fixes the buttons in the toolbar... so, great apps and superb customer service. I'm really impressed with their fast response. So anyone else with this issues, just download the latest release and presto!
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You're not the only one: I find the blue bar annoying too. When they took it away, I missed it at the beginning... but I got used to NOT having it pretty fast. I agree with you: it very distracting and doesn't really add any value. It reminds you of how long a site is taking to load... plus it doesn't work properly: even when the blue bar has disappeared, the load wheel on the right keeps spinning while the site is not yet visible.
The former solution was much more elegant and unobtrusive. I hope they make it optional in the future.
cheers!
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No Tiger support...
but there is an update called 4.1 (4533.16) available and includes several bug fixes and general improvements for top sites and facebook and gestures.
but there is an update called 4.1 (4533.16) available and includes several bug fixes and general improvements for top sites and facebook and gestures.
World's first Safari 5 extension?
Anyone tried it?
http://blog.builtwith.com/index.php/2010/06/08/builtwith-safari-extension/
Anyone tried it?
http://blog.builtwith.com/index.php/2010/06/08/builtwith-safari-extension/
Reopen all windows from last session
Do you know, how to make "Reopen all windows from last session" work in Safari 5?
http://tinypic.com/r/2m6lwfb/6
Do you know, how to make "Reopen all windows from last session" work in Safari 5?
http://tinypic.com/r/2m6lwfb/6
